Year 2 Weekly Blog (4. 2. 22)

Date: 3rd Feb 2022 @ 9:00am

This week, we have been tasting gingerbread biscuits!  The children have tested a variety of different types of ginger biscuits and evaluated their taste, texture and appearance.

In Maths, the children have been further developing their fractions skills; the children have practised using manipulatives to consolidate their understanding of how to share things into equal groups: learning about the numerator and denominator and how we can use this information to work out questions like '1/2 of 8'.  

On Tuesday, the class had a DT afternoon: the children had to design and make a model boat for the Gingerbread Man to use in the story to 'cross the river'.  The children used recycled scrap materials like bubble wrap, cardboard boxes and tape; the children all created some very interesting and unique designs.  After finishing their model, the children then tested their boats to see if they floated.

On Friday, we were thrilled to see the different animal costumes the children had dressed up in for our special 'Animal Mufti' day.  We had owls, cats, tigers and even some unicorns, dinosaurs and dragons!

Next week, the children will have a very exciting final week before the half-term break: they will be baking their very own gingerbread biscuits and decorating them too!  Fingers crossed we have lots of 'star bakers'!  We are also looking forward to watching the Reception performance on the final day of the half-term.

We hope you all have a restful weekend, and look forward to seeing you all bright and early first thing on Monday morning!